Early Life
Slack's family migrated from the Windward Islands to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England when he was 11 years old.
He spent time playing cricket for various local sides, progressing into the Buckinghamshire team in 1976, at the age of 21, becoming the minor county's leading run-scorer for the season, with 748. The Middlesex coach, Don Bennett, marked him as first-class county material, and he was signed by them the next year.
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